February 24 - A United AirlinesBoeing 747 bound to New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii rips open during flight, sucking 9 passenger and crew out of the first class section. Luckily most passengers and crew were still belted to their seats at the time
March 27 - The first free elections for the Soviet parliament go against the communist party
April-May
April - Emperor Akihito of Japan apologies to China for the suffering caused to it by Japanese aggression. The existence of this apology has still not been widely reveled in China.
April 9 - Massacre of Georgian demonstrators in the central square of Tbilisi during a peaceful rally by Red Army soldiers; 20 citizens were killed (most of them young women), many injured.
June 4 _ Solidarity's victory in the first partly free parliamentary elections in post-war Poland spark off a succession of peaceful anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe.
June 4 - Train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline
June 7 - At 01:23:45 AM the time and date by US reckoning was 01:23:45 6/7/89. This was also true 12 hours later excepting 24-hour time.
June 13 - The wreck of the German battleship Bismarck, which was sunk in 1941, is located 600 miles west of Brest, France
August 23 - Baltic Way, uninterrupted 600 kilometre human chain, in which two million indigenous people of Estonia, Lithuania, then still occupied by the Soviet Union, joined hands to demand freedom and independence
November 20 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution - The number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
November 30 - A storeowner in Palm Harbor, Florida named Richard Mallory takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos and is seen for the last time (Mallory became the first of seven people killed by the female serial killer over the next year)
December
December 1 - Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state (Egon Krenz, the Politburo and the Central Committee resigned two days later).
The 1989 sovereign, as all dates of sovereign from 1983 to 1999 inclusive, was only available as a proof.
It was only in about 2003 or 2004 that demand for the 1989 proof sovereigns started to really outstrip supply, until then we managed to maintain a selling price of about £150, rising to £195, until we were eventually forced to readjust our prices in line with the rest of the market.
The 1989 gold Proof sovereign features two new designs by Bernard Sindall, both of which are modern adaptations of the original sovereign design of 1489, The reverse is a Shield of the Royal Arms ensigned by an open Royal Crown, the whole superimposed upon a double rose and the circumscription
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